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PARIS French investigators began taking DNA samples Monday from 527 male students and staff at a high school -- including boys as young as 14 -- as they searched for the assailant who raped a teenage girl on the closed campus.

Testing began Monday at Fenelon-Notre Dame high school in western France. All those who received summonses last week were warned that any refusal could land them in police custody, and no one rejected the sweeping request to test the high school's male population.

The testing of students, faculty and staff at the school is expected to last through Wednesday, with 40 DNA swabs recovered inside two large study halls. Prosecutor Isabelle Pagenelle said investigators had exhausted all other leads in the Sept. 30 rape of the girl in a dark bathroom at the school.

"The choice is simple for me," she said. "Either I file it away and wait for a match in what could be several years, or I go looking for the match myself."

While there have been other situations in which DNA samples have been taken en masse, the case is complicated for France, where acceptance is widespread for DNA testing and a national database maintains profiles of people detained for even minor crimes. But children's civil liberties are considered sacred, especially within schools.

France has stringent privacy protections -- Google, for example, has come under legal attack for storing user data, as well as for lapses in images from Street View. Questions of criminality are a different matter -- the government's DNA database has expanded radically since it was first created in 1998, and now encompasses 2 million profiles, or about 3 percent of the population.

"It's clearly a situation where people do not have a choice," said Catherine Bourgain, a genetic researcher and author of "DNA, Superstar or Supercop." "One you have a DNA file it's very difficult to get that information erased."

Authorities have promised to discard the DNA collected once a donor is eliminated as a suspect, but Bourgain said she hoped that would also include the profile information, which during the usual course of French investigations is computerized and transmitted to the database.

Police recovered genetic material from the girl's clothing but found no matches among current profiles.

"This happened during the school day in a confined space," Chantal Devaux, the private Roman Catholic school's director, told French media. "The decision to take such a large sample was made because it was the only way to advance the investigation."

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A Marietta man convicted of robbing an ATM customer after his DNA was found on cigarettes at the crime scene was sentenced Monday to 40 years in prison.

On Friday, a Cobb County Superior Court jury convicted Derrius Shamar McKinney for the Sept. 13, 2012 armed robbery and aggravated assault of a 59-year-old man who had just used the ATM at the Bank of America branch in the 2400 block of South Cobb Drive.

The victim was hit in the head with a gun and robbed of $160, according to Kim Isaza, spokewoman for the Cobb district attorney's office.

Isaza said DNA found on cigarettes near where the victim said the perpetrator's car was parked matched that of McKinney.

Cobb Superior Court Judge Mary Staley Monday morning sentenced McKinney, 23, to the state's recommendation of 40 years.

Co-defendant Shawn Thomas pleaded guilty in the case and was sentenced to 15 years, with 10 years to serve, Isaza said.

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Students received their summonses last week.

Permission to take DNA samples requires the double consent of pupils and their parents, however refusal to agree to provide samples would be viewed as suspect and could be held for questioning, police said.

Most pupils were apparently happy to take part in the exercise but some said they regretted not being informed of the rape until several months after the attack.

Isabelle Pagenelle, the local prosecutor, said: Forty samples will be taken per hour, under the watch of teachers when it comes to pupils, as photos and identity cards are not always trustworthy for minors.

On the delay in conducting the tests and informing pupils, she said: We first needed to be sure about the girls credibility, then look for DNA traces on clothes, check these didnt belong to relations and compare them with the national genetic print database.

Only when this produced no leads did they decide to proceed with the mass test. It was chosen to avoid any repeat offence and to safeguard the school, she said, conceding that investigators could not totally rule out the possibility that the assault was carried out by an unknown intruder with no links to the school.

However, given its quasi-compulsory nature, the genetic testing of teenagers has come in for criticism.

"I understand the argument that those who have done nothing wrong have no reason to refuse. But why should refusal be considered an admission of guilt?" said Pierre Tartakowsky, president of the French human rights league. The exercise was "disproportionate, threatening and traumatising", he told Le Parisien.

However Cathy Richert, a legal expert, said: Its obviously less traumatic to say that everyone is taking a DNA test than singling out certain people who risk being stigmatised.

The school has set up a counselling unit to provide psychological help if needed.

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Hundreds of French students and teachers DNA tested to find rapist

Paris Male students and staff at a high school in western France 527 people in total were asked to give DNA samples beginning Monday as police search for the assailant who raped a teenage girl.

The La Rochelle prosecutors office said tests were expected to last from Monday through Wednesday at Fenelon-Notre Dame high school, where the 16-year-old was sexually assaulted Sept. 30 in a dark bathroom. Police recovered genetic material from the girls clothing, but it had no matches in the national DNA database.

The prosecutor said it was an easy decision to order the DNA tests. The DNA dragnet started Monday in La Rochelle, and prosecutor Isabelle Pagenelle says so far no one has refused.

Pagenelle said investigators exhausted all other leads in the rape last fall.

The choice is simple for me, she said. Either I file it away and wait for a match in what could be several years, or I go looking for the match myself.

Pagenelle had said anyone who refuses the test could be considered a suspect and taken into custody.

This happened during the school day in a confined space, Chantal Devaux, the private Roman Catholic schools director, said in interviews with French media. The decision to take such a large sample was made because it was the only way to advance the investigation.

Summonses went out last week to 475 students, 31 teachers and 21 others either staff or males who were on campus at the time. The cost to analyze the samples is estimated to total 5,000 euros ($6,900)

Devaux acknowledged that all the results could come back negative, sending investigators back to the drawing board.

France has an extensive DNA database, with a total of 2 million profiles kept on file as of 2012, and refusing a test can be used against suspects in court.

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527 DNA tests in high school rape in France: 'Choice is simple'